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Dai · 13-07-2010, 15:35

If you have a spare screen available try plugging that into the blue VGA port on the laptop. Power off before connecting the screen.

If you can get a picture on that screen it will confirm that it's not a problem with the graphics card.

My money's on backlight failure as well.

13-07-2010, 15:35	#8
Dai Inactive Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Lincoln UK Age: 77 Services: 50Mb, TV & Phone Posts: 3,673	Re: help labtop just gone very dark If you have a spare screen available try plugging that into the blue VGA port on the laptop. Power off before connecting the screen. If you can get a picture on that screen it will confirm that it's not a problem with the graphics card. My money's on backlight failure as well.